Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya ...

Minoru Kunizawa a.k.a. Shūsaku Niki is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his work in the pink film genre. Including Yutaka Ikejima, Yumi Yoshiyuki and Tarō Araki ...

Incumbent Koike Yuriko wins the Tokyo gubernatorial election on July ... factor in Saitō Motohiko’s reelection as governor of Hyōgo Prefecture on November 17 after he resigned following ...

Come New Year's Eve, Tokyo is usually filled with incredible parties and countdown celebrations. While the countdown event at Shibuya Crossing has been cancelled yet again this year, there are ...

Olson Gross was an exchange student in Japan, and Tanaka Johnson grew up in Japan’s Hyōgo prefecture before moving to Minnesota in 1992 with her St. Paul-native mother.

A deadly two-plane collision in Tokyo on Jan. 2 happened because a pilot mistakenly believed he had been given permission to enter the runway for takeoff, the Japanese government’s crash ...

The signing of MoUs between UP government and Yamanashi Prefecture highlights a key milestone ... The Nishikasai area in Tokyo has become known as "mini-India," with over 40,000 Indians now ...

(Kyodo) CHIBA (Kyodo) -- Police arrested a 77-year-old man on Thursday in connection with the stabbing deaths of a couple earlier this week in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo. Kaoru Sakamaki ...

Hyōgo Prefecture, site of the 1995 Great Hanshin ... causing more than 52,000 deaths in Turkey and Syria. In response, Tokyo sent the Japan Disaster Relief Team, consisting of specially trained ...

It wasn’t easy to choose just one dish per prefecture for Wright’s team ... The store was one of the first places to open in Tokyo after the earthquake and serviced the masses of people ...